2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival
| Hours: | 10:00 am - 9:00 pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Fairs & Festivals |
The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival will take place on Saturday, August 5, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building.The Roxbury Poetry Festival features several award-winning writers, panelists, and curators, and includes a keynote address from 2022 MacArthur Fellow, poet, and essayist, Hanif Abdurraqib.
The festival is free and open to the public.
The day-long event culminates with a Publisher’s Poetry Slam sponsored by Button Poetry that yields a book contract for a local writer.
Other events include a craft talk on politics and poetry by Ruth Lily Fellow and professor Nate Marshall, and a workshop from Guggenheim Fellow Eileen Myles.
The festival includes workshops taught by several local writers including Nakia Hill, Paloma Valenzuela, Brandie Blaze, Ekua Holmes, and a pop-up open mic hosted by If You Can Feel It, You Can Speak It.
Registration and more details about the festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at roxburypoetryfestival.com.
The festival is free and open to the public.
Winelle Felix, the returning festival manager, invites residents to “step into the realm of words and wonder at the Roxbury Poetry Festival - where creativity blooms and hearts ignite!”
ABOUT THE POET LAUREATE
Porsha Olayiwola is a writer, performer, futurist and curator.
Olayiwola is serving as the current Poet Laureate for the City of Boston and a 2020 laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets.
Part of her work with the Academy of American Poets is establishing the HOME Reading & Workshop series as well as the inaugural Roxbury Poetry Festival.
Olayiwola is a long-time Roxbury organizer and artist and a recent Roxbury resident.
ABOUT THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE
The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture is a City agency that enhances the quality of life, the economy, and the design of the City through the arts.
The role of the arts in all aspects of life in Boston is reinforced through equitable access to arts and culture in every community, its public institutions, and public places.
Key areas of work include support to the cultural sector through grants and programs, support of cultural facilities and artist workspace, as well as the care and commissioning of art in public places.
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.roxburypoetryfestival.com/
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, 2300 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02119 map
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